..The Hemoclot (Hyphen BioMed, Mason, OH) test to measure dabigatran serum concentration is commercially available, but presence of the drug may also be detected using the activated partial thromboplastin time or thrombin time...

..The goal of this prospective observational multicenter study was to determine the risk of recurrence in cryptogenic stroke patients with either no or defined coagulopathies under various prevention regimens...

..The aims of this study are to describe the management patterns, cost of treatment and overall resource utilization after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) as well as the major differences to ischemic stroke (IS)...

Prediction of recurrent stroke and vascular death in patients with transient ischemic attack or nondisabling stroke: a prospective comparison of validated prognostic scores

..Although some studies reported on the association of serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) concentration and cognition, only one population-based study investigated the association of TSH concentration and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)...

Association of diabetes mellitus and mild cognitive impairment in middle-aged men and women

..The literature suggests an association between depression and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, but not all studies have examined this association with regard to MCI subtypes reflecting different dementia etiologies...

Development and validation of a prognostic model to predict recovery following intracerebral hemorrhage

..While several models have been developed to predict mortality following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the functional outcome and its predictors in surviving patients have been poorly investigated so far...

Etiology, duration, and prognosis of transient ischemic attacks: an analysis from the German Stroke Data Bank

..This marker of target-organ damage might be included, when lifestyle modification and pharmacotherapeutic effects in prehypertensive individuals are tested to avoid exposure to risk and increase benefit...

Air quality, stroke, and coronary events: results of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study from the Ruhr Region

Barbara HoffmannLeibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Deanery of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg Essen, Department of Neurology, Essen University Hospital, Institute of Medical Sociology at the Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Department of Cardiology, West German Heart Center, Essen University HospitalDtsch Arztebl Int 112:195-201. 2015

..The Heinz Nixdorf Recall (HNR) study addressed the question of the effect of long-term air pollution on stroke and coronary events. Ambient acoustic noise was also considered as a risk factor...

Sleep-disordered breathing, sleep quality, and mild cognitive impairment in the general population

..Herein, we investigated the value of the ankle-brachial index (ABI), a simple non-invasive marker of atherosclerosis, as stroke predictor in addition to established risk factors that are part of the Framingham risk score (FRS)...

..This study provides representative data on onset and severity of early neurological and medical complications as well as possible predictors for early recurrent cerebral ischemia following acute ischemic stroke...

..of the international normalized ratio? How feasible is it to apply either of these treatments in an acute situation? What is the safety profile of each of these substances? Is there a difference in haematoma growth and clinical outcome?..

..We investigated the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its subtypes according to the original (MCI-original) and modified (MCI-modified; neglecting cognitive complaints) Petersen criteria...

..hospitalized with TIA/IS to stratify the risk of recurrent stroke according to the Essen Stroke Risk Score (ESRS) and of future cardiovascular events according to the ankle brachial index (ABI) as a marker of generalized atherosclerosis..

Prevention of cardioembolic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation

..A new study in Chinese patients suggests that this risk is reduced following treatment with clopidogrel plus aspirin compared with aspirin alone. However, whether the findings can be extrapolated to other populations remains unclear...

..Functioning and disability after ischemic stroke are clinically meaningful and of major relevance to patients. Despite many instruments available to assess these outcomes, little is known about their interrelation and predictive factors...